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At long last we are pleased to announce the opening of the nopesport.com shop! Bringing you the opportunity to easily purchase our wonderful merchendise from the comfort of your own home, without the difficulty that arises in tracking us down at events! Payment is totally secure through Paypal ...

Unfortunately due to essential upgrades by our hosts you may find that you are unable to access nopesport around 5pm this evening, it is expected that the work will take no longer than an hour. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Happy Easter everyone and that can only mean one thing the JK festival of orienteering. This year Nopesport is lucky to have an active role in this year’s proceedings. Here is a selection of what we are involved in Nope Stall The Nope cartel has been given a stall in the JK Marquee. P...

Suse Coon of Compasssport has kindly put John Morris' article debating the purpose of BOF on the Compasssport Website. Thanks to Suse for doing this in order for the forum debate to continue. John's commentary to the planned membership proposals can be found here while the proposals themsel...

There are some avatars in the avatar gallery for you to spruce up how you look on the forum. Goto forum > profile > show gallery to check them out.

Another site on your server was hacked by the ever popular (as of this week) santy worm and has overwritten some of our files. The site is still operational but will be operating with skeleton functionality over the festive period. You should all have better things to do than stay here over...

this is the first in a veritable torrent of editorial articles planned for the future. as i write this, nopesport is about to have its first birthday. well happy birthday nopesport. and may you have many more. the pyrat and i began the concept of this site about september 2003, during an msn c...

By Kjell-Erik Kristiansen at Middle Race Press Conference Thierry Gueorgiou Last year you won the Gold when you were not the favourite , and so this year you were the Favourite, how did you find this? Of course it is very difficult to be favourite again… What have you been doing since...

Norway's men and Sweden's women take the golds in a fierce relay world championships final involving sprint finished and amazing performances from many of the national teams. Great Britain acheived great podium positions, fifth in the mens and sixth in the womens. Men 1. Norway (Valstad, K...

Final results: 1 Karolina A Höaard, Swe 1:22:25.4 2 Hanne Staff, Nor 1:23:26.5 3 Marika Mikkola, Fin 1:23:51.6 -------------------------------- 12 Heather Monro 1:27:36 31 Helen Winskill 1:41:38 40 Alison O'Neil 1:51:31 Men 1 Bjø Valstad, Nor 1:45:25.3 2 Mattias Karlsson,...

World champion number one of the year 2004 is the one and only Simone Niggli-Luder, claiming her 6th WOC gold medal. Silver goes to Karolina A Hojsgaard of Sweden and Bronze was taken by Elisabeth Ingvaldsen of Norway. The British Girls, Sarah Rollins and Helen Bridle finished in 21st and 4...

five out of six Brits qualified for todays Sprint final. Only Hannah Wooton failed to make the cut. Congratulations to GG, Speake, JD, Sarah and Helen. The final takes place this afternoon.

Four out of the six Brits entered for the Middle distance have qualified for Saturdays final. Men Heat A 1. Valentin Novikov RUS 26.17 2. Anders Nordberg NOR 27.29 3. Edgaras Voveris LTU 28.14 6. Jamie Stevenson GBR 29.00 Men Heat B 1. Thierry Guergiou FRA 23.48 2. Johan Nasman SW...

A Good Luck email from the [nope] cartel prompted the following insightful response from one of the teams most experienced and successful members, Heather Monro: I for one will not be looking at nopesport, the papers, etc until its all over.. worrying about what the everyone else is saying abo...

The Long, or Classic as it was formerly known, is the ultimate discipline. It’s a race where the best guy or girl in the world will run over 90 or 75 minutes respectively. That’s the best person, at the peak of their fitness, and running the race of their life. The terrain is unforgiving, ...